Solid state flippers, Robocop and later

From Robocop on, a flipper board drives a single-winding coil with 50 V DC for a fixed 40 ms, then holds it with 9 V. Only one 1N4004 diode is on the coil. The fixed timing, rather than an EOS switch, ends the power pulse.

Systems

• Data East CPU Version 1/2
• Data East CPU Version 3
• Data East/Sega CPU Version 3b

Games

• Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
• Back to the Future
• Batman
• Batman Forever
• Baywatch
• Checkpoint
• Guns N' Roses
• Hook
• Jurassic Park
• Last Action Hero
• Lethal Weapon 3
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• Maverick
• Phantom of the Opera
• Robocop
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
• Tales from the Crypt
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Simpsons
• The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard
• WWF Royal Rumble

Related tips

• How Data East solid state flippers work (Robocop on)
• Flipper stuck up with power on (Playboy and later)
• Deger single-winding flippers on Playboy and Monday Night Football
• Testing the diodes on a flipper coil
• Testing a coil, switch or flipper diode with a meter
• Resets from damaged flipper coil diodes
• Random resets or lock-ups during play: broken flipper coil diodes
• Reset or lock-up only when one device fires

Source: Repairing DataEast 1987 (Laser War) to Sega 1995 (Batman Forever), Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)